Sep. 4, 2019
07:09 am JST

Sep. 4, 2019
07:19 am JST

Wait a minute, "annual sales reached 300 million yen" @ "500 yen seafood domburi (rice bowl)" that works out to 600,000 bowls annually or 69 bowls per hour for the entire year. Does this seem a little fishy (pardon the pun) to anyone else? I think perhaps something else was being sold at this establishment and that could be the reason the police were looking at them......

Sep. 4, 2019
12:07 pm JST

Sep. 4, 2019
12:35 pm JST

Fisheries in Japan are communal, based ón compacts that go back generations. One cannot fish in these locations without familiar and residential history - don't know what the laws are, or even if there are any - but from my experience, the locals generally overlook day trippers but will vehemently go after anything organized. A Japanese friend of mine who lives in Amakusa will occasionally go out for awabi for his girlfriend, and he'll show them to me as if they were a drug haul.

Sep. 4, 2019
01:07 pm JST

Reading this I have to wonder if it wouldn't just be easier for the Yakuza to just get normal jobs?

Like even with stuff that can be done legally - fishing! - why do they have to do it in an illegal way? Just because they are Yakuza and they have to do whatever it is they are doing illegally?

Wait a minute, "annual sales reached 300 million yen" @ "500 yen seafood domburi (rice bowl)" that works out to 600,000 bowls annually or 69 bowls per hour for the entire year. Does this seem a little fishy (pardon the pun) to anyone else? I think perhaps something else was being sold at this establishment and that could be the reason the police were looking at them......

Two things:

One, your math is off. The article says they have sales of 30 million, not 300 million Yen. So that would be 6.9 bowls per hour, not 69, which sounds way more realistic.

Second, the bowls aren't the only thing they sell. Likely they are just a teaser menu item to get people in. Probably they make higher margins on other stuff like drinks, etc.

Sep. 4, 2019
01:49 pm JST

Yakuzas are human beings too, they have to work too. atleast, this is real work and the japanese govT should tell these human beings the right way to do it. Japanese consumers want cheap food and then they complian. Very normal in japan. Cheap & delicious, figure that out.

Sep. 4, 2019
03:29 pm JST

So adult business was not 'illegal funding source but fishing was? What the government think will keep yakuza alive :-) For me it seems they are let to survive on strictly shady business but real work is forbidden for them...

Sep. 4, 2019
03:33 pm JST

Sep. 4, 2019
03:54 pm JST

Amazing. We got yaks driving boats and scuba diving because they can make more money out if fishing than out of their more typical criminal activities. Either shows that smut/vice/drugs etc are getting cheaper or that fish getting waaaaay more expensive.